Police: Sex Confession Adds Twist To Slaying Case

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December 31, 1998

JONESBORO, Ga. - A 76-year-old Georgia woman who originally said her husband's throat had been slashed by an intruder has confessed that the couple picked up the killer on a highway and brought him home for sex, police said Wednesday. Police said the couple picked up the hitchhiker Saturday night along Interstate 75 near Jonesboro, Ga., about 20 miles south of Atlanta. The woman, Evelyn Smith, told police that she and her husband sometimes picked up hitchhikers for sex, but never before had the encounters turned violent.